Arnold Toynbee, an eminent historian of our day, has pointed out that 26 civilizations have withered and died since the beginning of time. Is there any question that we aren’t going in the same direction these past civilizations took before their fall? There are many people who brand us as calamity preachers, alarmists, or panic button pushers, because we speak of the end. I see something coming upon this nation as well as upon the world that requires an alarm to be sounded. This alarm is sounded for every man, woman and child. Not a person dare be missed. It concerns us all. It is God’s last call to man. Something strange is taking place about us. It can be felt as well as seen. Ladies and gentlemen, we are coming to “THE END!” God has declared in His word that He would not do anything until He first reveals it unto His servants, the prophets. When we look back at history, there was no flood without Noah’s warning to the people. There was no apostasy in Israel without an Elijah sounding the alarm. There was no fall of Rome without early Christians predicting its doom. There wasn’t the coming of Jesus Christ without the sounding of prophets. There was no eminent coming of Christ without John the Baptist. Will we experience an abrupt end of world systems, the second advent of Christ, and Armageddon without a warning? Is there such a warning? Is there a message that will do for today’s world such as that spoken by Noah, Elijah, and John during their generations?  This is a challenging, alarming, and daring thought. The fact remains that all signs point to the end and terminus of history, as we know it.The Prophet Jeremiah saw the doom of Babylon fifty years before it fell and began to declare it. In Jeremiah 51:13, the Bible says, “Thine end is come.”  Babylon at that time was at the height of its power. God’s judgment against the nation was irrevocable. Gross sins were bringing it down. “The wages of sin is death.” “The wicked shall be turned into hell,” says God. God’s Spirit will not always strive with man. When the Prophet Zephaniah saw the approaching end and disaster of Judah, he cried, “The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly” (Zephaniah 1:14). Yet, Judah was 20 years away from her fall. Her sins had made the end inevitable and near. I, too, see catastrophe coming upon our entire world, the western world and this nation unless we turn to God. The evidence is overwhelming. The end of an age and death is on our civilization. As we look at the deaths of past civilizations, they had similar experiences as most of the great nations of our world, western world, and the Americas . They rose to power through a long period of development. They prospered for a season, and then abruptly passed away. Our progress has risen higher and higher each year. It is not a civilized world and America ’s progress that’s killing us, but our sinfulness; our departure from God. This civilization, rich and most prosperous of all times, is dying spiritually! Billy Graham stated in his book, World Aflame, “Our interests are centered in ourselves, we are preoccupied with material things. Our supreme god is technology, our goddess sex. We give more thought to what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, and what we can do to relax than we do to what we   are.” We don’t  seem to be concerned with the way we are going, where we are headed and our final end.” The world is on its deathbed and it is only a matter of time before we’re placed in the grave, if we aren’t awakened and rescued out of our spiritual slumber. The grave is open, pallbearers are standing at the door, the last rights are about to be given, the eulogy is about to be pronounced and memories of our existence are about to be banished in outer darkness, never to be relived again. Every concerned person needs to go to God in prayer seeking His divine favor and pardon, deliverance, and help. “WILL God in His mercy postpone judgment a little longer?”  Coupled with the end of the nations of our world, western world, this nation, and mankind on this planet, I foresee something else, “IT IS THE END OF THIS AGE AND MANKIND IN THIS NOW KNOWN WORLD!” The Bible tells us that the world as we know it shall end. The scripture says in I John 2:17, “And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” It says again in II Peter 3:10, “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works therein shall be burned up.”  This world is now on a rapid course to the climax of this present time. It is very possible that we may witness such a climax in our day. “It’s later than many think.” Paul wrote to Christians, “Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the Armour of light” (Romans 13:11 -12). Thousands, tens of thousands, even millions are blind to the end of time and the doom of the world. Many Christians have grown familiar with the constant warning of the nearness of the end and the legacy of their lives until this familiarity has bred contempt. They are sophisticated in their believing, slow of heart in their devotions to Christ’s ministry, unrepented in their spirit. They have just become dead in the pretense of being spiritually awakened.